Kern, I'd like to propose a change to how tapes are managed in Bacula with the addition of a new column to the Media table of a 'Barcode' column with a type of tinyblob. This is what is used for the VolumeName column at least, and they are similar.
The idea is that if I do an 'update slots' and Bacula goes through and checks all my volumes in a jukebox and discovers that it doesn't know what barcode XYZ123 is, loads the volume, and sees it has a VolumeName of "BackupVol-003", it would then associate that Barcode with the proper MediaId and VolumeName. There would ideally also be an option which says to use the Bacode on the physical media as the VolumeName by default. Also, how hard would it be to have Bacula offer the option to Relabel a piece of media so I can change the VolumeName to match a Barcode, but without changing anything else on the actual media or being forced to do a full relabel which wipes the tape? Thanks, John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
